Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-26
CUSTER CHRONICLE.
Omcial Paper Of Custer County.

Assaying done at Booth & Webster's.
Judge Thomas returned from Bis
mark on Tuesday.
Sheriff Porter recently appointed Os-
car Klein as his deputy at Hermosa.
Ifyou want a good partner get the
Farmers Daughter.
Only six days remain Of the present
session of Congress.
Sioux city is now dubbed "the Kansas
City Of the north west"
The greatest variety or teas and tobac-
COS in the Hills at Cochran's.
Nightly prayer meetings have been
held at tho Methodist church during
the week.
Assaying done at Booth 4 Webster's
The exact depth at which coal was
struck in the artesian we'll mt Chadron,
as stated by the Journal, Is Cos feet.
The width Of the vein is said to be so
inches.
The Farmers Daughter Is a cook
stove, the best stove made. 1t is sold at
j. C~ochran's.
w. III. Mccartney Of Deadwood arriv-
ed in this place on Thursday. and is in
t%erviewing our citizens in the interest
OF the establishment, in this place, Of a
lodge Of the Ancient Order Of United
Workmen.
Heavy SHOWS are reported in Iowa;
from Sioux City north the snow is said
to be from four TO six feet deep on the
level. 1t would require the accumula-
tons Of four winters to equal that depth
Of snow in Custer.
Cochran's for groceries and hardware,
the cheapest house in the Hills, and tn o
best goods in the market.
During the present week the residents
OF Custer have enjoyed unusually fine
winter weather. While the nights have
been somewhat cooler than We would
care to have them, the days have been
as bright and pleasant as could be
desired.
For fresh candy, genuine HAVANA
cigars, oil kinds of pipes, go to Cochran's
where they sell cheap.
The recent blowing up Of a boiler al
Greenwood has resulted in a suspension
OF operations, pending the arrival OF
members of the company from Chicago,
now daily expected. About three quar-
ters Of a mile Of the ilroad track has
been completed.
In the future, all remittances to the
DeaGwood land Office will be required
to be in currency or drafts on the First
National bank Of D~eadwood, which is a
United States depository. Attorneys
and land agents viii be saved time and
trouble by complying with this require.
ment.
A goodly number Of Custer residents
greeted the Good Templars at their hall,
upon the occasion Of their open session
on Saturday evening. The exercises
were varied and entertaining, consisting
of addresses, declarations, singing &c,
which, being well rendered, was we'll
received, and duly appreciated.
Mr.. Ira Brickley, who has been a resi-
dent of the western suburbs Of this
city for the past year, has recently sold
his ranch to j. r, Pitcher. Mr.. Brick
ley will leave for Ohio on Monday,
where his father-in law is now lying at
the point of death. Mr.. Pitcher will
take possession Of the property at once.
The latest advices from Dea dwood in
dictate the probable r~e-opening Of the
Merchants National Bank at that place
which closed its doors on the 10th inst.
1t in now conceded that in case of the
bank being forced into l~iquiaation, that
her liabilities will be settled upon the
basis OF one hundred cents on the
dollar.
Mr.. Mclaughlin and wife Of this
place departed for Iowa, their former
home. q few days since. We learn that
Mr.. Mel. will be absent but "a brief
period, and that he contemp!ates the
purchase of q saw mill, which he will
erect in this immediate vicinity, for the
purpose of meeting the increased de-
mand for lumber which will come with
the opening of spring.
The Rapid Republican predicts a ver-
table boom for that place upon the adj
vent Of spring, despite the future of the
smelling project. We predict that the
spring boom will even extend beyond
that progressive point. and dispense its
coveted benefits in the more remote, but
equally promising districts Of the Black
Hills. where tin and other desirable
minerals continue to claim a fair degree
of public attention.
Methodist Church-The order Of sery-